QC control
Helping with marketing
V60 project
Newsletter
Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Blog, thumbl
Create brewing guides
For Espresso
For Filter
Create list of statements and positions
Barista Training.
Quality controll
On specialty coffee
On oils on surface of the beans
On sourcing
On blending
On direct trade
On roasting degree
On FairTrade
Create app
2) Improving roasting consistency
Establish Roast Rangers in Cropster
Bean moisture changes
Find how to keep changes to minimum
Differences in roast profiles proportional to moisture difference
Stable bean storage environment
Find roasting consequences
Log dailty/weekly moistures of all beans on stock
Ambient temperature and moisture changes
Create protocol minimizing changes in roast
Find how change affects roasting
Get digital thermometer and moisture meter
Roaster overheating
Create correct "Cooling between roasts" protocol
Install Cropster probe
Order Cropster probe for face monitoring
Analyze consequences
Resulting beans seems to be roasted lighter if same roast profile is followed
If more roasts are done in row, roaster starts to overheat itself
Cold roaster inconsistency
Create solution
Create correct heat-up protocol
Find out correct heat-up temperature/time
Testing in progress
Install thermostat for G60
Install and test
Order Thermostat and thermocouples
Simon creating connection diagram
Get specifications for the correct thermostat
Collect data on face temperature and compare to the issue found in taste
Install face thermometer
Install temporary face thermometer
Analyze causes and consequences
If same roast profile is followed, beans will be overroasted
This results in higher percentage of convective heat transfer
First 2-3 roasts are done on cold roaster
1) Improving roasting quality
Advanced cleanliness check for roaster and pack. machine
Find critical points for reducing quality of the product
Create cleaning protocol if none exists
redesign roast profiles for every bean based on physical properties
Create suitable roast profiles
Find patterns of behavior of similar beans
Establish protocol of measuring screen size if possible, bulk density and moisture content.
Create Android app for easy logging
Find overall roasting style
Shorter roasting profiles must be designed correctly to avoid compromising body and sweetness
With slightly shorter roast times we should be able to achieve better flavor developement, better crema on espressos and cleaner taste.
To Be tested
Beans not suitable for shorter times
Pre-blends => Stephens customers
Beans Improved by shorter times
Sumatra
Tanzanian Robusta
FT Colombia
FT Costa Rica
Ethiopia Limu
FT Brazil
Col Somondoco
Decaf
All specialty coffees so far
FT Nicaragua
Brazlil P/N
Brazil Nat
FT Ethiopia
Current: Roasts ranging between 17-19 min length, baked flavors are common in some beans, no signs of scorching or tipping, all beans could stand faster ramping
Very often causting vegetable taste with low sweetness and astringency. Common for Centrals and Colombians. Under these conditions these milds are producing unpleasant soury acidity.
Balance Roasters
Find correct airflow for both roasters
Find the right presure for correct ramping and developement on G60 without fluctuations in temperature
Improve handling of the roasters
Smoke produced by G60
Install
Manufacture
Draw place design
No interest in IMS's offer
Send image to IMS
Correct jets for UG22
Kyle communicating with Hansel UK
Better control valves for UG22
Preasure gauges for G60
Create new contracts
Brazil Santos
Using Brazil P/N
CTCS?
5) Improving brewing
Roastery's grinders calibration
research on most up-to-date coffee equipment available
Find best grinders
Test other leading brands of grinders
Mythos 1 Clima pro
Mazzer Major OD
Test grinders we're currently supplying
K8 Fresh
Test the grinders Russell recommended
Santos
Find best Reversed Osmosis filtration systems
Jim Hoffman's?
Bespoke Water
3M
Everpure
Find/decide which brand of coffee machines we want to sell apart from LM (if any)
Victoria Arduino Black Eagle
Advanced coffee measurements (at roastery and at customers)
research on water in Belfast, Dublin and other places, focusing on scale-forming and taste-changing properties
improving espresso and filtered coffee extraction techniques
Advise sales about information for home brewing guides.
Research on correct grind settings for pre-ground coffees
Discuss with engineers what volumes and ratios are we looking for, so they can correctly set up machine for our standards
Train barista trainers about using Extract Mojo, advanced calculations on coffee extractions and using of Scottie Calagan dosing tools
4) Improving blends
create Bailies signature/specialty blend
redesign wholesale blends
Billy's
Completely new blend?
When new beans will be available
Current with Guat replaced by Nicaragua
Current with better roast profile
Coffee Angle and Art of Coffee
Create Sweetshop-like blend
Brazil + Ethiopia
Create Christmas Blend
And try it as an irish coffee
Tell Ross to create price offer if Karl likes it
Create suggestion and send sample
10% Kieni / Kamwangi
20% Wote
23% Natural
47% Pulp Natural
Stephen's customers
Silverbean
Darker, 50% Santos, 10% robusta, 40% colombia?
Better profiles
Roast separatly
re-design bailies current blends
Solve Clement's defect problem
Assess the blend and create low defect, not privey solution
Bring Santa Cecilia
Ordered for first week in January
reduce number of blends and find concrete purposes with Russell
Signature/specialty blend
Fair trade
juicy and sweet
balanced for everything
Punch Through Milk
Assess current Bailies Blends
3) Optimizing greens prize/quality
Create android app for easy tracking of consistencies in deliveries, aging and mistakes
Write descriptions and brewing recommendations for each SO
Get rid of past crops and mediocre beans
Costa Rica
Fair Trade Guatemala
Inform sales to sell those as wholesale or/and at discount
Create list of coffees we're not able to sell
List is at N:\Jan\Specialty leftovers.xlsx
Create estimation of one year buying plan
Comodity
One year buying, roasting and selling plan is on N:\Jan\specialty roast schedule.xlsx
Get consistency in same-origin deliveries
Buy container from origin
Stop buying from unreliable importers
Based on statistics from Moisture and Density checks
Buy in bulk from importers on sample basis
Hopefully not needed
Communicate with importers
Set standards for communication and buying
Ask if it is possible to have contract on specific lot
Read more about the contracts we're signing
ECF - E.D.C.C
ECF - E.C.S.C.
Find best value-for-price beans for each purpose
Based on species
Robusta
Arabica
Based on origin
Kenya
Ethiopia
India
IndCoffee
Indonesia
Colombia
Brazil
Capricorn Coffees
Proud
Atlantica Coffee
Coopfam
Contract made
Carmo Coffees
Nu:Coffee
Centrals
CafePacas
Based on Price
Commodity
Premium
Specialty
Based on FT/non FT
Fair Trade
Non Fair Trade
